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LOUDON, Jane Webb (1807-1858). The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants ... second edition. London: Stewart & Murray for William S. Orr & Co., [n.d. but 1849]. 4to, (290 x 230 mm). 42 hand-colored lithographic plates. Contemporary green half morocco over brown cloth-covered boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments, marbled endpapers, g.e. Condition: bound without the half title, plate 233 loosely inserted; light scuffing to extremities. Provenance: Lynn Abbott Trust. second edition of the most spectacular of loudon's beautiful and instructive works. A fine copy. Cf. Nissen BBI 1236.View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.Similar lots up for auction |




